TY - BOOK
T1 - Reading at a Crossroads?
T2 - Disjunctures and Continuities in Current Conceptions and Practices
AU - Spiro, Rand J.
AU - DeSchryver, Michael
AU - Schira Hagerman, Michelle
AU - Morsink, Paul M.
AU - Thompson, Penny
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/3/5
Y1 - 2015/3/5
N2 - The Internet is transforming the experience of reading and learning-through-reading. Is this transformation effecting a radical change in reading processes as readers synthesize understandings from fragments across multiple texts? Or, conversely, is the Internet merely a new place to use the same reading skills and processes developed through experience with traditional print-based media? Are the changes in reading processes a matter of degree, or are they fundamentally new? And if so, how must reading theory, research, and instruction adjust? This volume brings together distinguished experts from the fields of reading research, teacher education, educational psychology, cognitive science, rhetoric and composition, digital humanities, and educational technology to address these questions. Every question is not answered in every chapter. How could they be? But every contributor has many thoughtful things to say about a subset of these important questions. Together, they add up to a comprehensive response to the issues the field faces as it approaches what may well be-or not -a crossroads. A website devoted to extending discussion around the book in creative (and disjunctive) ways [readingatacrossroads.net] moves it beyond the printed page.
AB - The Internet is transforming the experience of reading and learning-through-reading. Is this transformation effecting a radical change in reading processes as readers synthesize understandings from fragments across multiple texts? Or, conversely, is the Internet merely a new place to use the same reading skills and processes developed through experience with traditional print-based media? Are the changes in reading processes a matter of degree, or are they fundamentally new? And if so, how must reading theory, research, and instruction adjust? This volume brings together distinguished experts from the fields of reading research, teacher education, educational psychology, cognitive science, rhetoric and composition, digital humanities, and educational technology to address these questions. Every question is not answered in every chapter. How could they be? But every contributor has many thoughtful things to say about a subset of these important questions. Together, they add up to a comprehensive response to the issues the field faces as it approaches what may well be-or not -a crossroads. A website devoted to extending discussion around the book in creative (and disjunctive) ways [readingatacrossroads.net] moves it beyond the printed page.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84941585218&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9780203819142
DO - 10.4324/9780203819142
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:84941585218
SN - 9780415891684
BT - Reading at a Crossroads?
PB - Taylor and Francis Inc.
ER -